I was there over the Memorial Day Weekend and carried an extra gallon of water with me after reading both the facebook page and sanjacjon.com which warmed me of little to no water. But when I was there the spring was flowing slowly but consistently. Here's a photo:
Video here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/_jfr_/27667392777[rant] I discovered that the so-called vandalism was that someone finally had the courage to detach that annoying hose that was stealing away the water and sending it somewhere far away across the meadow. I had read that the hose was originally part of a project to restore the lower meadow at Round Valley, although I suspect it was installed to supply the CCC workers campsite (they did something similar at Deer Springs and that spring has been dry ever since where it crosses the PCT). Like most such attempts at "redistributing" water, it may have achieved its stated objective, but it also left a mess behind. I'm not sure how far away the Spring Box is from the outflow pipe, but I'll bet it isn't far, and if you do the math, 99.9 percent of the water that used to come out of the pipe sunk right back into the ground (this is all of the water NOT used by hikers, flowing 24/7), where it replenished the local water table and helped to keep the Spring Box full, by preventing the upstream groundwater from flowing away too fast. It's a water table thing, and it's hard to see what's under the ground, but it's an important part of Round Valley's ecosystem. Installing that hose was a bad idea, if you ask me. I hope someone from the CCC removes the rest of the offending hose and hauls it away on one of their mechanical mules. [/rant]
Anyway, this was a low rainfall year, so let's hope that the spring keeps running well into the Summer. Carrying extra water from Long Valley gets old really fast.